The 1996 Olympics bronze medalist and Academy coach Irina Dzyuba summed up the performance of our students at the international Sky Grace-2023 tournament.
“Everybody did a great job! Our team in the Academy did a very good job. There was plenty of support from our native city of Novosibirsk. Many thanks for that to our Novosibirsk people. Certainly, this is already great happiness to stand on the podium of such a major competition. It is great joy to be here just in general. Regarding our ambitions, we’ve got them. I think it all ahead. We will continue working. The tournament is very big. Probably, we were a bit short of the competition experience prior to a major start like that. We will definitely take this into consideration next time,” she said.
Our gymnasts won seven awards in the junior program: Kristina Voitenko from Novosibirsk won a gold medal in the jump rope exercise, silver in the hoop and ball exercise, and bronze in the clubs, and Ksenia Savinova from Gatchina won silver in the clubs exercise, bronze in the jump rope and ball.